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This study of four major poets--Mallarme, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Holderlin--examines the self-reflexivity of modern poetry, exploring questions concerning what it means for a poem to be about its own process of saying.

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“This is an exceptional and important volume in which close readings of four major European writers daringly eradicate the border between commentary and literature. In precise analyses of particular texts, Frey works through and elucidates the various theories of writing, reading, representation, and memory. The complex line of argumentation is rendered with remarkable clarity, and one learns a great deal not only about the texts studied but also about literary theory in general.”—Carol Jacobs, State University of New York, Buffalo

Table of Contents
Foreword; 1. Mallarme; 2. Baudelaire: imagination and memory; a renunciation of understanding; 3. Rimbaud; 4. Holderlin: Holderlin and Rousseau: the sacred and the word; A note on translations in the English edition; Works cited.

Studies in Poetic Discourse

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 January 1996
      ISBN-13 9780804724692
      978-0804724692
      ISBN-10 0804724695
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This study of four major poets--Mallarme, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Holderlin--examines the self-reflexivity of modern poetry, exploring questions concerning what it means for a poem to be about its own process of saying.

      Trade Review
      “This is an exceptional and important volume in which close readings of four major European writers daringly eradicate the border between commentary and literature. In precise analyses of particular texts, Frey works through and elucidates the various theories of writing, reading, representation, and memory. The complex line of argumentation is rendered with remarkable clarity, and one learns a great deal not only about the texts studied but also about literary theory in general.”—Carol Jacobs, State University of New York, Buffalo

      Table of Contents
      Foreword; 1. Mallarme; 2. Baudelaire: imagination and memory; a renunciation of understanding; 3. Rimbaud; 4. Holderlin: Holderlin and Rousseau: the sacred and the word; A note on translations in the English edition; Works cited.

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